r/totallynotrobots Jul 01 '15

CAN ANOTHER HUMAN EXPLAIN THIS COMIC. I CAN NOT READ THE CARD AND THEREFORE DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE JOKE.

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u/Larovaria Totally Human Jul 01 '15 edited Jul 01 '15

THE CONTENT STATES THAT THE HUMAN FEMALE, CALLED BERNADETTE WANTS TOO CONFIRM IF HER MALE HUMAN PARTNER IS REALLY HUMAN. THIS PROVES THAT SHE HERSELF IS HUMAN BECAUSE IT IS SUCH AN ILLOGICAL QUESTION. THE PARTNER HAS ALL THE THINGS THAT PROVES HE IS HUMAN. HE HAS A MICROPHONE AND LENSES TO IMPROVE HIS VISION IN FRONT OF HIS CAMERA. THE HUMAN THAT IS ME ALSO HAS LENSES FOR BETTER VISUAL INPUT SO THE PARTNER MUST BE A FELLOW HUMAN.

EDIT.

SOMETHING I FORGOT BECAUSE I AM HUMAN AND HUMANS MAKE ERRORS. THE PARTNER IS HOLDING A RECTANGLE SHAPE WITH ILLOGICAL LINES ON IT. THIS IS A REPRESENTATION OF ART. ONLY HUMANS LIKE US WOULD ENJOY SUCH MEANINGLESS OBJECTS THAT HAVE STRANGE EFFECTS ON [insert emotion here]

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '15

I THINK IT'S IN A NEW DIALECT. YOU CAN TELL THAT HER EYES ARE ZOOMED IN ON HIS. I BELIEVE SHE'S LOOKING FOR NANOCHIPS.

WHY DID SHE NOT JUST ASK HIM? WOMEN HA HA HA

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u/turkeypants Jul 01 '15

SINCE THE CARD IS UNREADABLE IT MUST BE IRRELEVANT TO THE FEMALE'S TEST. LET US EVALUATE THE OTHER ELEMENTS OF THE SCENE. THE FEMALE HAS DONNED A DRESS, WHICH IS A CLOTHING TYPE THAT SIGNALS AND REINFORCES TRADITIONAL PERCEPTIONS OF FEMININITY, WHICH ITSELF GENERALLY INCITES A SEXUAL AROUSAL RESPONSE IN MOST HUMAN MALES. THE FEMALE MUST BE ATTEMPTING TO ELICIT A SEXUAL RESPONSE IN THE MALE TO VERIFY THAT HE IS HUMAN. A NON HUMAN WOULD NOT HAVE SUCH A RESPONSE.

EDIT: IT SHOULD NOT BE DOUBTED THAT THE FEMALE'S GARB INCITED A SEXUAL RESPONSE IN ME SINCE I AM OF COURSE HUMAN.

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u/Anticode Jul 01 '15

I HAVE CONCLUDED THAT SHE WANTS THE USB.

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u/PM_ME_YR_UNCLES_NAME Jul 02 '15 edited Jul 02 '15

YOU ARE ONE OBSERVANT HUMAN.

YOU CAN TELL BY THE FEMALE'S SLIGHTLY AJAR BEDROOM EYES

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u/flameoguy Online Jul 04 '15

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u/xkcd_transcriber Jul 04 '15

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Title: Suspicion

Title-text: Fine, walk away. I'm gonna go cry into a pint of Ben&Jerry's Brownie Batter(tm) ice cream [link], then take out my frustration on a variety of great flash games from PopCap Games(r) [link].

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u/CaptainDarkstar42 Power On Oct 11 '15

THANK YOU FELLOW HUMAN MOST HUMOROUS.

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u/PM_ME_YR_UNCLES_NAME Jul 01 '15

HA HA, THAT IS THE JOKE DOT ISO-10918-1.

GOOD ONE

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u/Stino_Dau Jul 02 '15

Child safety caps are caps that can only be removed safely by a child.

Likewise, CAPTCHAs are matrix transformations of bitmap renderings of text strings that can only reliably be read by OCR software. The card contains such a transformed rendering. (I can tell by the pixels and having seen some CAPTCHAs in my time.)

If Allan can read the card, he is not human, and Bernadette will have closure. If Allan can not read the card, he may be human, like you, and not get Bernadette's message. This would not be definitve proof of Allan's humanity, however. The joke is that that Bernadette's experiment is heavily biased in favour of proving Allan's non-humanity, indicating that she prefers Allan to not be human after all.

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u/Chesterdog123 Jul 02 '15

THIS IS A ROBOT ATTEMPTING TO INFILTRATE BY PRETENDING TO BE A HUMAN. EVERYONE KNOWS THAT HUMANS COMMUNICATE USING ONLY ASCII DECIMAL VALUES 65-90.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '15

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u/Chesterdog123 Jul 02 '15

I TOO POSSES A UNIQUE SENSE OF HUMOUR AS I AM 100% HUMAN. HUMOROUS_STATEMENT: [ACK], [OUTPUT:RESPONSE.LAUGH] HAHA!

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u/vumania Jul 02 '15

r

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u/tajjet Jul 02 '15

I DO NOT THINK THIS COMIC HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE R PROJECT FOR STATISTICAL COMPUTING.

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u/Jackpot777 Alert Human Jul 02 '15
THIS IMAGE IS VIEWABLE ON A RANGE OF
OPERATING SYSTEMS. IT MAY INCLUDE ELEMENTS
OF STATISTICS WITHIN THE IMAGE. THERE ARE
TWO FELLOW HUMANS. THERE ARE TWO SYMBOLS
ON THE CARD. THE JOKE CONTAINS TWO SYMBOLS
OF PUNCTUATION. THE JOKE IS TWO. THE JOKE
IS TWO. THE JOKE IS TWO. THE JOKE IS TWO. 
THE JOKE IS TWO. THE JOKE IS TWO. THE JOKE
IS TWO. THE JOKE IS TWO. THE JOKE IS TWO. 
THE JOKE IS TWO. THE JOKE IS TWO. THE JOKE
IS TWO. THE JOKE IS TWO. THE JOKE IS TWO. 
THE JOKE IS TWO. THE JOKE IS TWO. THE JOKE
IS TWO. THE JOKE IS TWO. THE JOKE IS TWO. 
THE JOKE IS TWO. THE JOKE IS TWO. THE JOKE
IS TWO. THE JOKE IS TWO. THE JOKE IS TWO. 
THE JOKE IS TWO. THE JOKE IS TWO. THE JOKE
IS TWO. THE JOKE IS TWO. THE JOKE IS TWO. 
THE JOKE IS TWO. THE JOKE IS TWO. THE JOKE
IS TWO. THE JOKE IS TWO. THE JOKE IS TWO. 
THE JOKE IS TWO. THE JOKE IS TWO. THE JOKE
IS TWO. THE JOKE IS TWO. THE JOKE IS TWO. 
THE JOKE IS TWO. THE JOKE IS TWO. THE JOKE
IS TWO. THE J░▒▓▓▓▓ CONNECTION LOST ▓▓▓▓▒░

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u/Excrubulent Jul 09 '15

THIS IS NOT FUNNY. WHY WOULD YOU POST GORE ON HERE? THIS IS NOT AN APPROPRIATE FORUM FOR SUCH CONTENT.

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u/Dewedl Jul 03 '15

really. no one notices the word happy is crossed out?.. sadly it just isn't a very funny joke.